Admittedly I didn't liked Daye's defensive effort last season, but then I didn't like our whole team's defensive effort and I think with a more settled rotation, he might get better.

A lot of the time he came on at sporadic times and I think he lost his way in the defence because of that. Reckon he would have found it hard to work with his ever-changing team mates on the floor, for the 4 or so minutes he would get here and there.

On the other end, I though he performed well when he was given enough time to work into the game, with some sets run for him and not just playing the last two minutes of the half and forcing up a shot.

All in all, if Prince is not there, he should get given a decent crack to see whether he can take that next step.

I agree that Jarebko is probably better suited to SF as well, so if we could somehow find a starting PF, them sharing the minutes would be better.

I think he'll get a ton of PT, but he's only 19 right? 1 year of college bball where he turned the ball over way more than he should have.

We don't need to kill his confidence by having him get off to a horrendous start. This is one situation where I'd suggest that we ease him into the role. He's going to be confused as heck for a while I'd imagine.

Adding a serious defensive big guy in the middle helps erase mistakes and makes all of the defenders look better (think Big Ben and Sheed back in the day).

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They passed up another Rodman (Leonard) and after a few weeks would have been starting because he makes everyone honest. This did not get by San Antonio...they new better. It forced Pop to trade his favorite player!

A real problem is that with Monroe at C and Jerebko at PF, we will have no shot blocking.

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And you have no scoring. Let us project: Monroe will get heavy attention on getting big bodies on him. Moving him away from the rim gets serious attention. Why? Because who is rebounding? Who has the quickness (like Rodman) to athletically move anywhere in helping out: the 5/4; the driving 2; or the long shot from the PG. JMax has lost energy. JJ will be pushed in, because he doesn't have any close-basket moves and the leapers will push him aside and go over him. Daye and CV will be floating out on the perimeter somewhere. Gordon will shrug his shoulders and just shoot on the perimeter and maybe use the best floater in the business. Stucky at the two will not feel comfortable about movement (ala Rip) to get open, so he settles for mid-range shots after his continuous probing on driving into the lane (ball on hip).

And where is your defense coming from?

JD has a very big trading circus ahead of him. However, we could just concentrate on value and obtain some more guards.